B. S. 68] LAWS RELATING TO GAME AND BIRDS 
be transported into any State, Territory, or District from another State, Terri- 
tory, or District, or from any State, Territory, or District into any Province 
of the Dominion of Canada at a time when such State, Territory, or District, 
or Province of the Dominion of Canada prohibits the possession or transport- 
ing thereof. 
[As amended October 25, 1918, July 9, 1920, March 8, 1926, and April 4, 1927.] 
Regulation 7. — Taking of Certain Migratory Nongame Birds by Eskimos and 
Indians in Alaska 
In Alaska Eskimos and Indians may take for the use of themselves and 
their immediate families, in any manner and at any time, and possess and 
transport auks, anklets, guillemots, murres, and puffins and their eggs for 
food, and their skins for clothing. 
Regulation 8. — Permits to Propagate and Sell Migratory Waterfowl 
1. A person may take in any manner and at any time migratory water- 
fowl and their eggs for propagating purposes when authorized by a permit 
issued by the Secretary. Waterfowl and their eggs so taken may be possessed 
by the permittee and may be sold and transported by him for propagating 
purposes to any person holding a permit isued by the Secretary in accordance 
with the provisions of this regulation. 
2. A person authorized by a permit issued by the Secretary may possess, 
buy, sell, and transport migratory waterfowl and their increase and eggs in 
any manner and at any time for propagating purposes ; and migratory water- 
fowl, except the birds taken under paragraph 1 of this regulation, so possessed 
may be killed by him at any time, in any manner, except that they may be 
killed by shooting only during the open season for waterfowl in the State 
where killed, and the carcasses, with heads and feet attached thereto, of the 
birds so killed may be sold and transported by him in any manner and at 
any time to any person for actual consumption, or to the keeper of a hotel, 
restaurant, or boarding house, retail dealer in meat or game, or a club, for 
sale or service to their patrons, who may possess such carcasses for actual 
consumption without a permit, but no migratory waterfowl killed by shooting 
shall be bought or sold unless each bird before attaining the age of four 
weeks shall have had removed from the web of one foot a portion thereof in 
the form of a V large enough to make a permanent, well-defined mark, which 
shall be sufficient to identify it as a bird raised in domestication under a permit. 
3. Any package in which such waterfowl or parts thereof or their eggs 
are transported shall have plainly and conspicuously marked on the outside 
thereof the name and address of the permittee, the number of his permit, 
the name and address of the consignee, and an accurate statement of the 
number and kinds of birds or eggs contained therein. 
4. Applications for permits must be addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture, 
Washington. D. C. and must contain the following information : Name and 
address of applicant : place where the business is to be carried on ; number of 
acres of land used in the business and whether owned or leased by the appli- 
cant : number of each species of waterfowl in possession of applicant ; names of 
species and number of birds or eggs of each species if permission is asked to 
take waterfowl or their eggs ; and the particular locality where it is desired to 
take such waterfowl or eggs. 
5. A person granted a permit under this regulation shall keep books and 
records which shall correctly set forth the total number of each species of 
waterfowl and their eggs possessed on the date of application for the permit 
and on the 1st day of each January next following; also for each calendar 
year during the life of the permit the total number of each species reared and 
killed, number of each species and their eggs sold and transported, manner in 
which such waterfowl and eggs were transported, name and address of each 
person from or to whom waterfowl and eggs were purchased or sold, together 
with the number and species and whether sold alive or dead : and the date of 
each transaction. A report setting forth this information shall be annually 
furnished the Secretary during the month of January for the preceding cal- 
endar year. 
